In the wake of Super Typhoon Uwan, thousands of Filipino children once again found themselves caring for siblings, lining up for rations, and helping their families rebuild. In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast, I examine what happens to the developing body and brain when children are forced to grow up too soon. From stress hormones to shortened telomeres, we explore how disasters and deprivation reshape biology itself—and why protecting childhood is not sentiment, but survival.

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Alien: Earth imagines a future where corporations outrun nations and treat life as inventory. At its center are “hybrids” like Wendy—children’s minds transferred into synthetic adult bodies. In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast, I examine what Wendy and her cohort reveal about human development as a biocultural process: how bodies and selves grow together over time, why childhood and adolescence can’t be engineered or skipped, and how treating memory, identity, and attachment as uploadable “assets” turns progress into arrested becoming.

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When thieves stole France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in a seven-minute daylight heist, investigators faced a paradox: a crime scene that was also a cultural treasure. In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast, I explore how forensic science operates in the world’s most fragile environments—where every fingerprint, fiber, and speck of dust must be examined without damaging centuries of history. In the Louvre, science doesn’t just solve a crime—it safeguards civilization’s memory.

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